DESIGN-LED craft

Each ESO ESTO piece is made by hand on a potter’s wheel in the Portland, Oregon workshop of designer Shannon Holt.

Drawn to clay in 2014, Shannon immersed herself in its foundations and has been riding the tension between her design training and the expressive immediacy of this medium ever since. Typically a form is discovered while working on the wheel, then refined through iteration until it feels complete.

Guided by the allied attributes of Form and Texture,ESO ESTO wares manifest an affinity for understatement, a deep respect for craft, and the desire to elevate raw material into the realm of beautiful objects.